News

One of the subprojects of the MMV-PDP Consortium recently received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop an innovative in vitro assay to find a drug to eliminate dormant malaria parasites in the liver – an area of unmet medical need that is critical for the malaria eradication agenda.

The following news stories are dedicated to showcasing the variety of activities our Lygature colleagues are involved in and the value they bring to the projects we provide partnership management services for. They share what excites them the most about working at Lygature, what they find challenging and how they adapted to the new working conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two scientists well-known within the European Lead Factory community, Peter Simpson and Graeme Wilkinson, recently published a paper in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery discussing the features underpinning a successful drug discovery consortium.

The following news stories are dedicated to showcasing the variety of activities our Lygature colleagues are involved in and the value they bring to the projects we provide partnership management services for. They share what excites them the most about working at Lygature, what they find challenging and how they adapted to the new working conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the 19th of May 2020, Professor Dr. Huib Ovaa sadly passed away from prostate cancer.

We are happy to welcome Ilse Custers who joined Lygature at the start of 2020! You can get to know more about Ilse and her work in our team below. 

In this blog Vera Nies, program manager at Lygature, discusses recent developments on personalized cell-based therapies and diagnostics.

Tomorrow, 25 April, is World Malaria Day. As an organisation that has been working in the field of malaria research for more than a decade, Lygature joins the international call to action to promote World Malaria Day, helping to raise awareness of the global burden of malaria and celebrate the progress that has been made to combat it.

Today, 7 April, is World Health Day – a global health awareness day celebrated each year under the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Our first priorities since the COVID-19 pandemic hit have been the health and well-being of our staff, as well as business continuity for the projects and initiatives facilitated by Lygature.

Due to the new measures put in place by the Dutch government, we at Lygature will be working mostly from home. 

We are happy to welcome Daniela, Bianca, Jacqueline and Robin who joined Lygature since the start of 2020! Below you can meet them and get to know more about their work in our team. 

10 years ago BBMRI.nl started building the joint national infrastructure necessary to make maximal use of biosamples, images and data for health research. 

MOMENTUM, a study focused on tracking the outcomes of combining Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Radiation Therapy (RT) to treat common types of cancer, has successfully enrolled 500 patients – an impressive milestone to have reached in just over a year, across seven collaborating institutions in four countries.